Pause issues

[bobbk]

I'm having trouble using the pause function, when I use one of the pause/delay functions it erases previously drawn text.

What's wrong, is after the pause, all text from the first score is being erased.

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label resolutionmenu:
    
    scene bg slums
    
    show resolution at Position(ypos = 0.9)
    
    $ ui.text("First score", xpos=0.5, ypos=0.9)
    pause(1)
    $ ui.text("Second score", xpos=0.5, ypos=0.8)

I tried importing a python sleep module, but the imported function makes the entire label sleep before anything is ever displayed, here's that module below.

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import time
import renpy.store as store
import renpy.exports as renpy

def procedure():
    time.sleep(2.5)

# measure process time
t0 = time.clock()
procedure()
print time.clock() - t0, "seconds process time"

# measure wall time
t0 = time.time()
procedure()
print time.time() - t0, "seconds wall time"

[chronoluminaire]

That's precisely what you'd expect. The call to pause() makes Ren'Py think the two comments are separate lines, and so it erases the screen between them.
(Well, actually, it's a bit more complicated than that, since you're using ui.text() rather than just say statements. But it's the same basic principle - stuff produced by calls to ui.* functions are also blanked every statement.)

There are a couple of ways to do what you want. One is to just use normal say statements but use the "extend" speaker, which adds the new comment on to the end of what's been said so far:

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"First score:"
pause(1)
extend "Second score:"

If you wanted to include some numbers as well as the text, you could do that with interpolation, using %(variablename):

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"First score: %(s1)d" % This inserts the value of the numeric variable s1
pause(1)
extend "Second score: %(s2)d"

Another way to do what you want is to use "show text", which puts a string of text on screen and treats it like an image:

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show text "First score:" at Position(ypos=0.9)
pause(1)
show text "First score:\nSecond score:" at Position(ypos=0.9)

This is mentioned in the documentationfor the show statement.
If you want to have multiple text images on screen at once, you can use the ParameterizedText function:

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init:
    image text08 = renpy.ParameterizedText(ypos=0.8)
    image text09 = renpy.ParameterizedText(ypos=0.9)

label start:
show text08 "First score:"
pause(1)
show text09 "Second score:"

A third way to do it is using overlays: see Overlays for details.

[bobbk]

Parameterized Text is working best for me

unfortunately now I'm having trouble getting values to show up in a text string

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show text08 "First score: %(playerscore)d"

This isn't displaying the value correctly instead i see the code when I run it.

This is technically a show statement isn't it, why isn't interpolation http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/reference/Textworking with this?

[Alex]

This might be interesting http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... text+lines

[bobbk]

I haven't bothered much with the ATL, I'm at a point where I'm going to get this to work, even if the code is messier than it has to be.

I have it working with an overlay like Chrono suggested, although since I have about 6 different scores to display I'm creating an overlay function for every one... It seems slightly code heavy for what it does, but not too much.

[chronoluminaire]

Parameterized Text is working best for me

unfortunately now I'm having trouble getting values to show up in a text string

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show text08 "First score: %(playerscore)d"

This isn't displaying the value correctly instead i see the code when I run it.

This is technically a show statement isn't it, why isn't interpolation http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/reference/Textworking with this?

Good question. I don't know why Ren'Py-style interpolation wouldn't work.

However, you could phrase it as a Python statement and use Python-style interpolation:

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$ renpy.show("text08", "First score: %d" % playerscore)

Note that in Ren'Py code, you interpolate with "%(playerscore)d", while in Python code, you interpolate with "%d" % playerscore.